Vehicle spring



March 299 1938. F. PovANDRA VEHICLE SPRING Filed Sept. 1l, 1956 ATTORNEYS Patented Mar. 29, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT orales 1 Claim.

The invention relates to vehicle springs and more especially to a vehicle spring connection.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a spring or connection of this char- 5 acter, wherein through the use of a saddle and linkage a multiple spring can be mounted ybetween the wheel axle and the body of a vehicle so that road inequalities in the travel of the vehicle will not disturb the body of the vehicle 10 as shocks and jars incident to such travel will be absorbed and relieved from the body of the said vehicle, the assembly including the spring and the linkage as well as the saddle being novel and capable of fitting between the body and the Wheel axle of a vehicle to function as a shock absorber.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a spring or connection of this character, wherein in the use thereof vertical oscillation as well as other vibrations will be reduced to a .7U minimum with respect to the body of a vehicle and the latter will be sustained on substantially the same level without regard to irregularities or road inequalities upon which the vehicle is traveling.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a spring or connection of this character, which is comparatively simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and effective in its operation, unique in the assembly thereof, strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a side elevation partly in section showing the spring or connection constructed in accordance with the invention applied to a vehicle.

Figure 2 is a plan view partly broken away of such spring or connection and removed from the chassis of the vehicle.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a saddle used with the spring.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally a portion of the side sill of the chassis of a vehicle, B a wheel having its journal It tted within a housing II accommodated by a split bearing I2, the part I3 of this bearing being formed with end eyes I4. Swingingly connected to the eyes I4 by pivots I5 are short links it, these being pivoted at Il to upwardly curved rocking levers I 8. The levers have rocking movement and are pivoted at I9 to a saddle 20, the said levers I8 being formed with the pivot ears 2| for the pivots I9.

The saddle is superimposed with relation to a multiple leaf spring 22 which through clips 23 is fastened intermediate thereof to the saddle 2U, these clips 23 being spaced from each other at the intermediate portion of the spring 22 and are fastened in ears 24 formed on and extended laterally from the saddle 2U.

The uppermost longer spring leaf 25 has pivotal connection 25 with shackles 21 which are pivoted at 28 to the outer ends of the rocking levers I8.

The saddle 2i] has upstanding therefrom attaching extensions 29 which through the use of bolts 35i are made secure to the sill A at opposite sides thereof, these extensions 29 being removed from the ends of the saddle 20.

The split parts of the bearing I2 are separably joined with each other through nut carrying bolts 3I and such parts of said bearingembrace the housing Il for the axle I0 constituting the journal for the Wheel B.

The part I3 of the bearing at its uppermost point has fitted therewith a lubricating nipple 32 for lubrication of the journal Ill.

The saddle 2i) is a casting and the spring 22 has its leaves gradually decreasing in length downwardly with the longer leaf uppermost and next to the saddle 2li. 'Ihe levers I3 project the shackles 2l beyond opposite ends of the saddle 2li and normally the leaf 25 of the spring 22 has contact with the pivots I9 connecting the levers i8 with the saddle as such leaf of the spring 25 underlies these pivotal points I9. The spring in reality is a floating spring and the assembly as hereinbefore stated relieves vertical shocks and jars to the chassis A of the vehicle when the latter is traveling and the wheels Contact with inequalities in the road bed and the body of the vehicle is maintained substantially in the same level at all times notwithstanding such inequalities.

What is claimed is:

A spring connection for a vehicle having a chassis, a wheel and an axle housing, comprising a saddle having spaced upstanding exten- '.sions secured to the chassis, a multiple leaf `spring xed intermediate thereof to the saddle -and having its ends extended beyond opposite ends of the saddle, the saddle being superim- 5 posed upon the spring, a bearing embracing the housing and having ears at opposite sides of the latter, upwardly arched levers pivoted eccentrically to opposite ends of said saddle at opposite sides thereof, links swingingly connected t0 saddle.

FRANK POVAN DRA. 

